As noted on the Steam Users' Forums, a new patch is now available for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Bethesda's recently released RPG sequel (thanks Chris and Alex). As stated in the thread, one of the changes the patch implements is that the game can no longer be launched separately from Steam. A locked thread on the Bethesda Softworks Forums and another current thread discuss another consequence of the patch, which is that it means the game can no longer be hacked to run in Large Address Aware mode, which many users found was the solution to crashing issues and texture corruption problems. We contacted both Bethesda and Valve about whether we should expect a return of the ability to use large address awareness through a future update, but have not yet received a response.

theyarecomingforyou wrote on Nov 22, 2011, 10:47:As for Steam Cloud - I haven't had any issues so far, though I certainly would be annoyed if I lost my saved data because of it. But my experience with games like Oblivion and Plants Vs Zombies has been very positive, as I simply install on another computer and I'm back where I left off.

I believe when they first implemented the cloud, it caused people to lose progress in PvsZ. Saw more than a couple of angry posts about it.

Only issue I've had with it was semi self inflicted: When I reinstalled torchlight, it would crash every time the game was launched. Finally tracked it down to the fact that the save file was incorporating mod file changes, and since those mods weren't installed yet, the game would soil itself when it tried to read the save file.